LETTER: Pine Bush probe proper

Good for Gov. Cuomo. He’s got his head on right in investigating the reports of anti-Semitic bullying in Pine Bush schools.

When I was a kid in the 1920s here in Highland, (I’m 95 — how did that happen?) I didn’t know any Jews. It was the wave of Italian immigrants whose names ended in vowels like Cuomo’s, didn’t “spika da eenglish too good” and had that Catholic “popish” religion that took the brunt.

My dad was a classy guy. He never struck me but once: when I came home from school and called some kid who had given me a hard time “a wop.”

Dad took me in another room, gave me one good whack with a strap and said, “We don’t do that in this family. I want you to remember that.” I did. I was impressed.

Dad was a Mayflower-descended American. That was also the family he was talking about. And so is Gov. Cuomo. Good for him.